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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
THE RAILWAY BRAIN"
A Case Much Resembling Hallway
STANDARDIZATION for Intercollegiate.

A Case Much Resembling Hallway
Spine"-0uestion for Neuroiogists.
At recent meeting Of the Society OF
Physicians of the harite hospital in Ber-
lin, Thomson exhibited patient whose
case he described as one of railway
brain," neurosis resembling in many
respects the condition already well known
under the name Of railway spine." A
healthy railway employe, aged 80, with
out history of alcoholism or of any pre-
disposing neurotic condition, by the sud-
den motion of his train was thrown vio-
lently against the side of car, striking
his head. He sustained no wound, and
at the time of injury consciousness was
preserved. Some hours afterward, how
ever, he was suddenly seized with syncope,
with mental terror, lost all sense of loca-
ton, could not recognize the simplest
familiar object, and described What he
saw enormously; his one objective symp-
tom was absolute an@sthesia of the entire
body. On the fourth day after his injury
he had violent headaches, pulse rate of
Al, and, in addition to the cutaneous anas-
thesia, loss of olfactory and taste sensa-
tons, with difficult hearing. On the fifth
day the psychic symptoms suddenly
ceased, he could remember nothing which
had happened, and had no explanation
for his condition.
The patient subsequently became very
melancholy, complaining of insomnia,
headache, spinal pain, WEAKNESS and
failure of appetite; no sensations Of terror
or djsordered dreams were present. The.
objective symptoms remaining We're well
marked cranial and spinal hyperesthesia;
failure to distinguish between white and
colors; loss Of smell and taste and i'm
paired hearing; numbness and at times
paresis and spasms of the region sup
piled by the facial nerve were also pres
ent. He was discharged from the hos
pital as improved, but two months after
ward his condition was unchanged; he
was unable to work ON account of head
ache and weakness. Thomsen's diagnosis
was railway BRAIN" condition of pro-
found disturbance of cerebral functions
from shock.
The increase in mechanical appliances
and the immense extension of railways
afford abundant opportunities for obser-
walton of nervous shock, both in its fatal
and milder forms. While postmortem
demonstration of hemorrhage and struc-
tural LESSONS explains the course of these
cases when fatal, it is evident that we
must rely upon the continued observation
of surviving patients to determine the
development of LESSONS which will illus
trate the pathology of this condition.
The possibility of the production of de-
generative changes in nervous matter
and cerebral conditions causing perma-
nent mental impairment is an interesting
question for neurologists, and. in lis
medico-legal aspects. for the corporation
whose property may cause such injuries
to their patrons and employes.-Medical
News,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
BALLOONS I'm High Attitudes.

The recent attempt made by some
French aeronauts to reach great height
above the earth has not been productive
of any particular scientific results. The
balloon in which the ascent was made
reached an altitude of over 10000 feet
without the occupants of the car ex-
periencing any ill effects, except ten
dency to faintness on the part of one of
them. When about twelve years ago
similar attempt was made, and the height
of $4,000 feet was reached, it was with
fatal results to three out of the four aero
nauts. The success of the present ex-
pertinent is explained by the allegation
that the difficulties due to the rarefac-
ton of the atmosphere only begin at an
altitude of $4,000 or $4,000 feet. This
view seems supported by the fact that in
the Himalayas and the Andes heights Of
about 10000 feet have been on several
occasions. reached without any ircon-
venience. In such cases, however, the
ascent has always been gradual. The i'll
effects experienced in balloons are pos
sibly due to the suddenness of the change.
London Spectator.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
Christine Nelson's Apartments.


Christine Nilsson, the wife of Count
Miranda, furnished and decorated her
apartments in a style that is the talk of
the town. The dining room presents a
most original appearance. The walls are
papered throughout with hotel bills, set
tied by the diva on her professional tours.
The drawing room is decorated, in lieu
of paper hangings, with the faded leaves
Of all the wreaths ever received by the
artistic, arranged in the form of scales.
The ceiling is entirely covered with gilt
foliage. The walls of the boudoir are
covered from floor to ceiling with the
musical score and the text of all the airs
which Nine. Nilsson is accustomed to
sing. ~,
The bedroom of the countess is fur
nished with extreme simplicity, but the
walls are completely hidden from view
by Swedish landscapes which three
French artists have received commits
sion to paint for the songstress, who has
left her country never to return. The
billiard room of the master of the house
testifies to the anxiety of the prima
donna to convince her husband of her
great abilities; for here you see affixed to
the walls thousands of reports in all Ian
guages, cuttings from all the newspapers
in the world.-Detroit Free Press.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
Life of the Lowly in Barcelona.

With some exceptions the ladies still
wear the poetic Andalusian headgear,
their glossy tresses piled high, tho black
lace covering them dropping in front in q
point. The Barcelona shop girl or seam
stress, however, instead of the mantilla,
prefers crimson or deep yellow silk kerr
chief, that suits to perfection her dark
skin, jetty locks and glorious orbs. Prob
ably their eyes become trained by the
constant contemplation of vivid colors in
mountain and sky, for even in such slight
matters as the selection of flower to
place in the hair, or the choice of a stock
Ing to match the petticoat, the Spanish
less never errs on the score of harmony.
The peasant too, is no less romantic
than artistic. In dress, department and
physiognomy, in fact from head to foot,
his appearance is characteristic. His
wooden cap is in reality shaped like the
leg of stocking-happily he does not
stiffen or distend it to its full length
capacity, the effect would be too gro
tesque for even his inborn gravity; the
lavish superiority he draws forward, and.
not only shades the eyes, but is most be-
coming. IL Is Eenerdily Icu anu tnub HOC
altogether unlike the Phrygian cap; old
cen, however, often choose dark
brown, purple, or gray color. His short
jacket is of black or blue velveteen, with
clusters of tiny silver filagree buttons; he
wears knee breeches, knitted hose, and
round his waist red sash no less than
five yards in length. To put this on he
lets it trail on the ground, and winds
himself into it by turning round and
round. In the folds of this scarf he car
ries a claspknife of singular shape, pre-
sunably of Moorish origin and peculiar
to Catalonia. The blade is from five to
seven inches in length. and laying it fiat
in the right hand palm, with the point
touching the tip of the two forefngers,
the 'muchacho" knows how to throw it
with deadly accuracy. A pair of sandals,
light and suitable for the climate, COM
plete his equipment and no doubt con.
tribute greatly to the marvellous feats OF
speed and endurance for which lie is re
markable. -Gentleman's Magazine.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
A counterfeit $500 hin.

AS an example of slight differences be-
tween the spurious bills and the genuine
as to tax to its utmost even practiced
eye, the following description of coun-
terfeit $500 is cited:
''UEquestionably one of the most dam
gerous counterfeits in existence. The
engraving and workmanship nearly equal
70 the genuine; the lathe work is excel
lent, numbering of the work fair, and
color good. The star on the right of the
treasury number is somewhat blurred.
The portrait of j. Q. Adams is excellent,
but the lobe of the ear is.very indistinct.
In the counterfeit, the button upon the
coat nearest the lapel is almost square
in the genuine it is round. The vignette
of the figure Of Justice is finely engraved
with the exception of the following points:
As the scale is held aloft in the left hand
the upright holding the beam is crooked,
and is larger in the counterfeit than in
the genuine-in the genuine the upright
shows only to the lower part of the hand,
while in the counterfeit it shows to the
second finger from the base; the white
curve in the arm is perfect oval in the
genuine, while in the counterfeit it is not.
The left foot OF the vignette, as it extends
from the garment, presents dubbed APP
pearance in the counterfeit, while the
toes are short and not half the length of
the genuine. The parallel ruling is ex-
cellent; the note is printed on fiber paper,
and is signed John Allison, Register, and
f. E. Spinner, Treasurer. Bankers and
others should receive these notes with
great care, as it is only by compare
son with the genuine that the majority
of experts can positively decide as to the
genuineness of note of this class"
No one will doubt the last statement in
the above description. When the ques-
ton as to whether you have $500 in your
pocket, or a fifty cent chrome, depends
on the somewhat distinctness Of q star,
the shape of button. or the indistinct-
ness of an ear, matters are being drawn
pretty fine.-Chicago Herald.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

The original of this is written upon
common official paper, and is in the hand
of President Lincoln, save the second
and third paragraphs, which are printed.
The printed paragraphs were cut from
the previous proclamation of Sept. %,
and pasted upon the sheet by Mr.. Lin
coin himself, to save the labor of writing
them. The attest is in the hand Of
Secretary Seward-a handwriting rot
greatly unlike that of the president, only
that it is larger and rather more regular.
When the secretary of state started to
pen the attest there appears to have been
a raveling in his pen, for as far as the
sixth word, "hereunto, the lines are
heavy and partly blurred. The signature
of the president is more tremulous than
the body of the document, and APP
pears poor as specimen of chirography
among the straight lines of Mr.. Seward
firm hand. The tremulousness was due,
not to nervousness, hut to the fact that
Mr.. Lincoln signed the proclamation on
New Years day, after having shaken
hands with several hundred people.
By singular incident there really
exists today two original copies of the
emancipation proclamation. The Incl
dent consists in the fact that Mr.. Lin
coin, at the request of the British
museum, made, with his own hand, q
second copy of his great paper. This is
unlike that preserved at Washington, in
that the attest is filed out by a hand not
that of either the president or the secre-
tary of state. The paper used was an
unfolded parchment about twenty-four
by thirty-six inches. 1t is now elegantly
framed and may be seen hanging in one
of the library rooms in the British
museum. Chicago News.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30

left the house, they said, the oil man
were gone to his room, an fer all th't
they knowed he were thar wen they
went out. Jim an his wife staid in the
deestric' for weeks, tryin' to clear mat
tiers up, but they couldn't, an by an by
they went away.
Nobody see nor heerd nothin' o. Jim
fer three year arter that, an then he
come back to the deestric' with party
O. friends to bev hunt. They camped
way down by Big Crane run, an one
day Jim got lost in the woods He wan
dered round till night, an not bein' able
to git his heariD's, concluded to bunk in
till mornin'. He started big fire to
keep hisself warm an to keep off the
painters an wolfs, and then laid down III
the leaves at the foot of big dead tree.
He got to sleep, an was walked up by
sumpin' in the night, an thar he see the
dead tree burnin', the fire havin' crep'
along in the leaves an ketched onter the
dry tree, an it bein chestnut had jist
more'n snapped an cracked with IT, The
hull o. one side of the trunk was fire,
an Jim hadn't more'n got onter his feet
fore smash! come the burnin' tree
to the ground, leavin' t'other side
jist q ketchin'. But it want the
fallin' of the burnin tree thar
in the dead o. the forest th't made Jim
jump an turn pale, am then stand ez
still ez if he'd been friz to the spot. No,
sonny, it want. 1t were the GRIMM
skeleton of a man tumblin' out from the
holler trunk O. the burnt tree an fallin'
sideways 'mongst the leaves on the
ground, an small chest with iron hoops
on it that kim rollin' after it, th't TUX the
tuck outen Jim, an almost made stun
pillar outen him. Thar it were-his mis-
sim fathers money chist. TIL want no
doubt on it. An consistently the skele-
ton must be his fathers too, which were
all true, for wen Jim found the camp
next day, an guided his party back to
the burnt ches nut, an they opened the
chist, they found the money all thar, an
a paper sayin' th't the oil man had got
tired O. the janglin in his family, an had
determined to take his money with him,
hide both hisself an it whar they want
never likely to be found, an then kill
hisself. The paper said th't if the money
were ever found, the one who found it
could hev it. Kinder the Of way of
findin's is keepin's, We know. The OF
man had likely ben totin' his chist round;
in the woods the night he disappeared,
lookin' for good place to hide, w en he
accidentally run agin the holler ches' nut
tree an crawled in it with the chist, an
mebby took p'ison. Leastways that's
wat them th't know'ed about it thort.
90 course, Jim had the oil mans
bones took up an buried decent. An, o.
course, he were titled to the money,
havin' found it. WIN, after the hunters
begun to git thicker an thicker, an
found out ez that spot were good run
way for deer, they couldn't do nothin'
but call it the Burnt Chestnut runway,
an so they did, an SO it allez has been
ever sence an allez will be. Ed Mott
in New York Mail and Express.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
AFTER THE SHOWER

After the storm Is psst,
And Winds health laden, Inurmur DER the lea,
And sing among the roadside trees, that cast
The glittering rain drops heedlessly
Long by the wall
Whepc rosebud petals fall
Happy Ia he who roveS
Along some unfreqursrted roat afar,
That leads DER billy peak thro' perfumed groves,
Or long by wood embroidered scar,
And quaffs healths breath
On dew bejeweled Aeath
The afternoon was husked,
And scarce a zephyr stirred the golden rnd
Or cooled the banks where dreamy streamlets
gushed
Down the warm glen In tepid food;
And landscape glowed,
Uncooled by mist or cloud.
But late the sudden storm
Burst forth upon the low. pen.hed hills and
da1es,
And cooled and Swallowed deep the valleys warm;
And frequent show'rs and fresh'ning gales
Transformed anew
The undulary view.
BY the sequestered road,
Afresh the pnkwink ehrpx and Summer sounds
Charm the far birds among the clouds, and load
The summer air with drowsy rounds,
While shadows creep
Slow from the eastern deep.
Boston Transcript
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
"raking" Conversation.

You will be surprised to have me tell
you that I think geographically; that
is, when you say word I at once mag
ina the character that l have used so long
to represent it. Conversation is one of
the things that no honest stenographer
will pretend he can take correctly. You
can't indicate the breaks, the flashes of
thought and feeling that make up half
of it.-Col. E. B. Dickinson.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
The Longest River.

According to the latest authorities the
Missouri Mississippi river is not only the
longest in name, but the longest in extent
of stream in the worlds, 3S2 miles.
The next longest is the Nile, 900 miles
and the next in order the Amazon and
Congo. Brooklyn Eagle. aNfy aa
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
w..b,urton,s Land Advertisement.

Dr. Alfred, of Ocala, Fla, has copy of
The Baltimore Advertiser and Journal,
dated Aug. 90, 1878. In it is a graphic
land advertisement by George Washing
ton, offering 10000 acres of the finest
and richest land in the world and stu
ated in the Kanawha valley, w. Va.
The doctor purchased it at the sale of
tho library of Ex-Governor Winslow, Of
North Carolina, thirty-seven years ago,
and prizes it highly. He has refused
several flattering offers for it by relic
hunters.-New York Tribune.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
rhoma. Jener.on's Poetic temperament.

1t must be remembered of Jefferson
that though he stood six feet two inches
high, and possessed strong. physical
vitality, yet he was cast in the feminine
rather than in the masculine mold. In
stead of the athletic sports of hunting and
horse racing, the harsh excitement OF
cards and personal broifs, he shrank away
to the more solitary and quiet pursuits OF
books and music, the writing of rhymes
and dancing with village bellies. Tho
poetic and artistic temperament domi'
mated not only his youth, but his entire
life.--John @. Nicolay in Harper's Maya
zine.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30
no stop nlecdIng OF che No.e.

If applying cold water to the neck and
face has no effect, dissolve little alum
in a basin of water and inject a sniff of 1t
up the nostriis; hold the head back and
do not attempt to blow the nose. - Herald
Of Health.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30

During the past year the national debt
Of England was decreased $50, 109,618.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30

Eighteen Alpine tourists are reported
this season to have slipped off the noun
tain side and lost their lives.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-09-30

an were jist on the pint o. 'yestigatin'
it, wen young Simon got back. 'Twan't
many hours fore the hull deestric'
know'd tint Simon had found the house
empty. The OIL man were gone, Jim
were gone. Patience were gone, an wuss
thin all, as Simon said, the OIL mans
money chist were gone. Simon ripped
round the neighborhood an swore th't
his brother Jim had murdered the OIL
man an hid his body som ers in the
woods, an then stole the money an run
off with Patience. More'n th't, he swore
th't ev'ry one in the deestric' had helped
Jim do it, an th't he'd hev 'cm all hung.
But no evidence o. no murder couldn't
be found, an nobody couldn't under
stand wat it all meant. AFTER vile
Simon, findin' th't he couldn't find a
clew to nothin', sot fire. to the house one
night an mex day left the deestric',
cussin' everybody th't were in it, an no
body ever see him ag'in.
people was beginning to fergit all
about the curious circumstance, wen
who should pop outen stage one day 1T
ez smilin' cz two baskets o. chips! Wall,
now, sonny, mebbe tn want time
wen jim and the gal heerd the news
They jst went wild, an ev'ry body see
to wunst that they didn't knaw nuthin'
bout oil Morer or his money. Jim said
that him an Patience had been bound to
marry one another, an SO the night arter
young Simon went to Philadelphy to see
the lawyer, they jist slid quietly out O.
the house an walked ten miles through
the woods an got married, an war on a
weddin' t,wer over sence. Wen thev
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-04

ing to the floor, and offered him safety
had he not been encountered with the
baby. He could not climb the rope
with her; he would not desert her. And
yet to stay there meant death to both.
The desperate chance suggested itself
to throw the baby among the leopards,
and trust to their friendship. while he
would reach the rope, if not then too
late.
Almost as he thought it he Slipped
the bolt, lifted the fastening, opened
the door, pushed his baby in, shut tho
door, and then leaped for the rope. II
was well for him that he was a gymnast
and could hand-over-hand up a rope,
for he was barely out of reach when the
jaguar shot through the air, and with
its terrible claws caught the rope just
under one of his feet.
After making several futile efforts to
reach the man. the enraged animal
tried to get into the leopards' cage,
where the baby had been welcomed,
and fortunately was kept in safety UNI
til help came and the jaguar was shot.
You may be sure those leopards never
lacked dainty bits of food after that
John r. CoryeH, in Harper's Young
People
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-04
NOBLE ANIMALS.
The Undaunted Pluck and Docility OF Arab
and Persian Horses.

The Undaunted Pluck and Docility OF Arab
and Persian Horses.
The general run of Arabs are, no
doubt, first-rate horses, so far as they
go, for military purposes. but they are
too small to mount satisfactorily any
but native cavalry. There are, of course,
exceptional animals which have size
and power enough for any thing, but
they are so few that that they may be
left out of the general estimate which
we take of the race. For any soldier
whose weight is such that he can be
mounted on an Arab he will be found
the hardest, soundest and most docile
of war horses. He will do an enormous
amount of work on very little and very
Indifferent food, and will always bear
himself well and handsomely. In
one point only is he, more than
other horses, susceptible of disease, and
that is his eye, which is liable to cata-
ract. His great characteristic is his UNI
daunted pluck. which is never more
clearly shown than when by any chance
he is ill, when all veterinary. surgeons
will allow that he is most admirable
patient, resisting and throwing off the
effects of illness or treatment in a way
that no horse of another race can equal.
Persian horses have always been found
among the most generally useful re-
mounts in India, and they take their
place both in the ranks of cavalry and
in gun teams. They have more power
and size than Arabs. with much of the
same constitutional good qualities, and
"a matter of great Importance to the
State--they are generally cheaper in
price. --BlacksOood' Magazine.